[Avodah] kesuvah

[Arie Folger]

RMB wrote:
> A single codicil on a kesuvah can make the whole shetar an asmachta.
> This is the problem with the Leiberman clause. Which is not only
> restricted to covering the case of divorce, but only to the case of
> civil divorce with no get forthcoming -- a very rare resolution of the
> contract.

I don't see what my explanation has to do with Lieberman or with codicils.

> I therefore fail to understand your answer.

The ketubah has three intended purposes: divorce, widowhood and marriage.
About the latter, it is written: "vana afla'h veoqir etc. kehilkhot guvrin 
Yehuda'in".

Our financial negotiations make the divorce close somewhat supefluous, but the 
other elements are still necessary, and nowadays, they gain in importance, 
esp. the part about working, etc.

By the way, the divorce element of the ketubah is still a moral message, and 
among Sefardim it is brought up to current standards of living, so that it 
loses none of its potency.
-- 
Arie Folger
http://www.ariefolger.googlepages.com